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Potential contribution of intrinsic developmental stability toward body plan conservation.
BMC biology - 11 Apr 2022
Uchida Yui, Shigenobu Shuji, Takeda Hiroyuki, Furusawa Chikara, Irie Naoki
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Despite the morphological diversity of animals, their basic anatomical patterns-the body plans in each animal phylum-have remained highly conserved over hundreds of millions of evolutionary years. This is attributed to conservation of the body plan-establishing developmental period (the phylotypic period) in each lineage. However, the evolutionary mechanism behind this phylotypic period conservation...
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